Employment
Director, Hampshire Sculpture Trust 2000 - 2002
Public Art Co-ordinator, Brighton and Hove Council, 2000 - 2001
Commissioning Officer, South East Arts 1997 - 2000
Crafts Officer, South East Arts 1994 -1997
Healthcare Arts, London, Acting Crafts Co-ordinator, 1994 -5
Business Development Officer, Crafts Council, London, 1984 -1989
Assistant Manager, Crafts Council Shop at the V&A, London, 1989 -1994

Education
MA in Art History, Birkbeck College, London University, 1994 –1996
BA Arts, Open University, 1986 –1992

Professional development
‘Public Art and the Planning Process’, and ‘Public Art Evaluation’, run by Ixia, 2007
‘Legal and Business Frameworks for Public Art’, run by Public Art South West, 2006

Advisory Work
Artistic Assessor for Arts Council England (public art + craft + design),
2010 - 2012
Commissions Advisor for Axis www.axisweb.org (2005 – 2008)
Executive Committee Member of Public Art Forum (now Ixia), 1999 - 2002

Awards
• Spark Plug Craft Curators award (with Cynthia Cousens) for Making Dialogues exhibition research, 2009 - 2010
• Research award from Arts Council England to visit Documenta12 and Munster Sculpture Project, Germany, recent public art projects in the UK and for professional development training, 2007
• Research award to visit Snow Show, Finland, from Arts Council England, 2004

Mentoring
• Mentor – FF1 and FF2, Designer Maker West Midlands (DMWM) – two year mentoring programme for mid-career makers. www.designermakerwm.co.uk
• Mentor for Cockpit Arts' Mentoring and Developing Professional Practice Programme; a-n The Artist Information Company; individual artists based throughout the UK.

Consultancy (selected)
• Heinrich & Palmer lightboxes for Chelmsford Magistrates Court in Essex, due to be installed 2011.
Client: Her Majesty's Court Service (HMCS)
• Spiralling Skywards – contemporary sculpture exhibition, National Trust property Nymans, Sussex (Commissioning Consultant), 2011
• Commissions Advisor to Croydon Borough Council for the Norwood Junction Underpass Public Art Project, 2010
• Norwood Junction Underpass Public Art Project, Commissions Advisor, 2010.
Client: Croydon Borough Council
• Metal panels by James Price for Fernbank Centre, Crowborough,
E Sussex.
Client: Wealden District Council
• Woodhurst Diagnostics Centre (DTC) Arts Strategy, Pease Pottage,
West Sussex, 2010
Client: Sussex Health Care
• 3Ts Arts Strategy, Associate for arts and health consultancy Willis Newson.
Client: Brighton and Sussex University Hospital Trust (BSUH)
• Lister Surgicentre Arts Strategy, Stevenage, 2010. Client: Clinicenta
• Combe Down Stone Mines Public Art Project (in partnership with Steve Geliot) – development of a programme of temporary and permanent works reflecting the rich social and mining history of Combe Down, Bath. Commissioned artists: Andy Croft (poetry), Paul Englishby (music), Neville Gabie (photography), Alec Peever (stone carving), Chris Tipping (ceramics) and Simon Whittaker (film). £270K budget.
Client: Homes and Communities Agency (HCA), 2008-10.
Case study published in Nalgao Magazine issue 26 Arts at the Heart,
autumn 2010
• Public Art Policy + Strategy, 2009.
Client: Chichester District Council
• Public Art Policy + Strategy, 2009 (with Steve Geliot).
Clients: Worthing Borough Council and Adur District Council
• A Public Art Strategy for Woking, 2007 (as Artpoint Associate).
Client: Woking Borough Council
• Public Art Advisor, Crawley Borough Council, 2000-2010. Projects include K2 leisure centre: commissions by Laura Johnston, David Watson and Sharon Elphick, opened autumn 2006; sculptures by Gordon Young and Gary Breeze as part of Crawley's 'Art on the Roundabouts' programme; Amanda Randall sculpture for Asda, Crawley; photography residency and commission at Crawley law firm with Magali Nougarede; granite seating, bollards, paving, metal flag posts by lead artist Bruce Williams for a new public square in Langley Green neighbourhood, 2009; Bewbush Healthy Living Centre – glass and textile commissions by Susan Kinley, 2010.
• Public Art Advisor, West Sussex County Council, 2004-09
• Public Art Consultant, East Sussex Arts Partnership, 2003-06
• Environmental Arts Programme, Wildfowl and Wetland Centre, Arundel, 2004
• Arts for Health – Hastings: a study to examine creative arts projects to support community arts and health in Hastings and St Leonards,
with ASAssociates, 2000-1

Project Management (selected)
• Crawley Art and Architecture Programme: new art commissions at Thomas Bennett Community Colllege and Ifield Community College, Crawley, 2007.
• 10/9 project with photographer Neville Gabie and poet Ros Barber, 2007
• Four Shores: art works for the Isle of Sheppey, 2005.
• Heart of Reeds, a project to create a reedbed designed by Chris Drury for disused railway land in Lewes, E Sussex. Opened June 2005. www.heartofreeds.org.uk
• Chalk Stones on the South Downs and Moonlit Path in Petworth Park Project Manager: two new commissions by Andy Goldsworthy in W Sussex, 2002.
• Camber Sands Arts Strategy, 2006. Client: East Sussex County Council Landscape Group.
• Arts and Regeneration programme: public art commissions along the seafronts and in the town centres of Littlehampton and Bognor Regis, lead artist Gordon Young, 2005-6.
• Leading the Way, first phase of a three year arts programme to enhance the new PF1 Gloucestershire Royal Hospital through a series of integrated commissions, as Associate for Willis Newson.
• Prject Co-ordinator: craft commissions for refurbished Hove Museum and Art Gallery.

Evaluation
• British Ceramics Biennial 2009. Client: Stoke City Council
•'Up the road and round the corner', ONE TO ONE Art and Architecture Network public art project evaluation, Hastings, 2007
• through the surface – celebrating cultural exchange and collaboration between Britain and Japan - project and exhibition evaluation for the University of Creative Arts, Surrey, 2005.

Writing/Editing (selected)
• Combe Down: the saving of a village (editor), published by Combe Down Stone Mines Project, 2010. ISBN 978-0-9563829-3-4.
• Touch: a site specific installation by Lyndall Phelps at Leamington Spa Art Gallery & Museum, (catalogue essay), 2010.
• Clare Wardman + Iain Richardson new work (catalogue essay), 2010.
• Overview: new work by glass and textile artist Susan Kinley (catalogue essay), 2009.
• a-n magazine, applied arts contributor, 2007 - 2010.
• Public Art and Artists Commissions in West Sussex publication for West Sussex Arts Partnership, launched October 2008 (editor).
• Artists' profiles 2, June 2008, part of a-n Collections series published by a-n The Artists Information Company. Essay + commissioning of sixteen applied artists profiles for web. www.a-n.co.uk/artists_profiles_2
• Up in the Air, Mur Island, Electric Wharf and Young Vic case studies for Public Art On Line www.publicartonline.org.uk/case/index.html and follow links to individual projects.
• Design Standards: Art within the Public Realm, for West Sussex Design Commission, 2007.
• Art in Public Places: public art initiatives and artists' commissions in East Sussex and Art in Public Places: advice and commissioning guidelines, for the East Sussex Arts Partnership, 2006.
• Prickings new work by Catherine Bertola (catalogue introduction), 2006.
• Mah Rana, Jewellery is Life (catalogue essay), 2003.
• Heart of Reeds: a land drawing by Chris Drury, (introduction), June 2000.
• Biographies of 30 craftspeople for the Crafts Study Centre, Farnham. www.csc.ucreative.ac.uk
• Editor for web database of Crafts Study Centre's permanent collection of 3,500 objects.


Lectures/Conferences/Presentations
• Public art lectures and research, Meiji University, Tokyo; invited by Meiji University as part of their 'Visiting International Scholar Programme', April/May 2008.
• Heart of Reeds: a case study (paper), 'Public Art? What for? Who for?' Conference, School of Art & Design, University of Ulster, May 2007.
• Chair of a series of three seminars Making it Happen at University of Portsmouth, Museum of Reading and The Anvil, Basingstoke.
• 'Negotiating Public Art Commissions', seminars for visual artists, part of eta's Artists Professional Development Training Programme, 2003-6.
• Lectures on Art in the Public Realm and Curating the Crafts at the Royal College of Art, London (part of the RCA's MA programme), 2005.
• Jewellery is Life, new work by Mah Rana (paper), 'Locate and Classify: New approaches to curating the crafts' conference, Newcastle University, Sept 2003.
• Presentation of paper Have you ever dreamt that your teeth have fallen out? (paper), Consuming Crafts Conference, Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College, May 2002.
Guest lectures and presentations (selected): West Dean College, University of Brighton, Landscape & Art Network, Worthing 5 Towns Network.

Curating
• Prickings, new work by Catherine Bertola, Fabrica, 2006 and touring.
Jewellery is Life, new jewellery by Mah Rana, Fabrica, Brighton, 2002
• After Caro, Thebes Gallery, Lewes

Research/Curatorial Trips
• Documenta12, Kassel, Germany, 2007; Documenta11, Kassel, Germany, 2002.
• Munster Sculpture Project, Germany, 2007.
• Venice Biennale, Dreams and Conflicts, 2003, Venice Biennale (Architecture), 2006.
• Snow Show, Kemi and Rovaniemi, Finland, 2004.
• through the surface collaborating textile artists from Britain and Japan opening at Kyoto Museum of Modern Art, followed by research trip to the Art House Project and Contemporary Art Museum, Naoshima, 2005.
• Contemporary Crafts Curators Research Visit to Japan, March/April 2003.